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Originally Posted by wolf
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
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Do let me know your opinion - I loved the pants off it. I became more lukewarm as the series went on, but The Eyre Affair had me laughing out loud on the bus.
Ah Bri and Clod - I mourn for you.
I guess I'm just too much of a romantic. TTTW had me from the moment Claire ran whooping across the square because she'd finally got to meet Henry. Oprah might well be stupid - I have no idea about any of her other book choices - but I don't think this book is insipid. And I now know I have vast hipness factor, because I didn't find any of that stuff obscure
I didn't always agree with her tastes of course. Thai, meh.
I cared deeply about the characters. To me it was a romance first. A book about a relationship and how it has to crack and bend along the way. With an imaginative external device. And blood and spew and drunkeness and the Violent Femmes and beautiful beautiful hair. And world enough, and time.
Of course it is all purely subjective and I love you none the less.
Just be warned that when I get my mind-probe working, you're on my list.
Hope you adore The Yiddish Detectives Union to make up for it!